It was one of those collections of stories of bloody murders, ghostly legends, and supernatural visitations, which, coarsely got up and illustrated, have a strange fascination for one who once begins to read them.

When our men are incited to rape our women, when our leaders lose sight of their moral compass and yell bloody murder, when a war rages and hatreds are aflame because of convenience and laziness to explain ourselves to each other, we stand to lose.

Big budget new drama Fortitude (Sky Atlantic, Thursday), written by Scot Simon Donald, as revealed in last week's Sunday Mail, has already been described as 'Twin Peaks meets The Killing' and it wasn't wrong as an all-star cast led by Sofie Grabol, Christopher Ecclestone, Michael Gambon Stanley Tucci faced bloody murder, eerie goings on and general strangeness in the Arctic town of Fortitude.

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